Since I am in Japan, I'll be taking photograph requests for whoever wants them. With a little work, you can filter these photographs to produce decent looking backgrounds for visual novels.

Conditions
All photographs are available for the public to use.
Using the photographs for any commercial purposes is not allowed.
No asking me to take photographs of places that are
a) Illegal to access or take photographs of
b) Ridiculously expensive to get to
It might take awhile for some photograph requests to be fulfilled, since I'll be taking photos as I walk aroud.
Also, I can take photographs of Osaka in a few days. If you want photographs of landmarks in Tokyo, then you'll probably have to wait a few weeks when I visit.

Also, if you have special specifications (like you want a photo during the dusk or during the rain or something) then tell me.

My visual novel backgrounds collection to date. I will upload higher resolution versions once I get my laptop operational and I don't have to rely on the dorm computers any more.

Fantastic idea ! Thank you very much !
May I personnally ask for a couple of Arcade / video games booths pictures ? A restaurant maybe ? A dojo ? A bus or the underground ? AAh sorry, your offer is so great that I just can't stop !!!

A temple would be nice. If you can, the front of a school. An alley-way. Beach. Right next to the river - you know, the ones where there's a path at the top then it sloops down to a river. (Not the best example, but if you need a better one, just tell me) Thanks!!!

Can you get some pictures of temples and shrines and such? That would be cool and really helpful. Others thinks at the back of my mind- Pictures of a university, A park and/or garden, theme/amusement park, some general stuff. That should be quite an collection and helpful to a lot of ppl.

I got over a 100 photographs yesterday, but I'm going to have to find somewhere better to upload them. Probably not a good idea to spam this topic with that many photographs. I'll see what I can do later today.